Converge and Emerge

The opening on Friday was a success and the turnout was better than I expected. The first year MFAs also got together on Monday night to have an informal critique of the work in the show. The repeated criticism I seem to be having about my work is that people are confused about its purpose. I am certain about the things I was thinking about while creating it, but those ideas are not coming across in the final product. This is a criticism I have dealt with for many years.

Meaning seems to emerge from convergence in my work. As I am working on many disparate things at once, ideas begin to overlap intentionally and unintentionally in a way that I can begin to direct the meaning. I think the problems I am having now come from the fact that I haven't gotten into a rhythm of working yet that would allow me to draw these kinds of connections.

Right now I have a lot of differing ideas that I am engaging in my studio practice. Here's a few:

-power
-capitalism
-farming
-food
-community
-communication
-connections
-collaboration

I've been looking for ways to overlap these things in the form of physical works, but I'm still having some trouble. I have been thinking a lot about the nature of collaboration and of performance. Expect something related to that soon.